Directions for uninstalling Vista and reverting back to XP

[Larry Hodges]

For those of you that installed Vista Beta over your XP, you're in luck! If
you follow these simple, step-by-step instructions, it is guaranteed to
uninstall Vista Beta.

Step #1:
Don't worry about backing up important data. It's only a bunch of files
that mean nothing because they're not on paper. Proceed to step 2.

Step #2:
Fill your bathtub with lukewarm water. Temperature is important, or the
transformation process won't work right. The water should be between 85 and
98.6 degrees. Use a common oral (or rectal) thermometer to check the water
temp before proceeding to Step 3.

Step #3:
Disconnect everything from your computer. Monitor, electrical...everything.
Take the side panel off your computer, and slowly immerse it in the tub of
water. (NOTE: Be sure the water level is high enough to cover the entire
computer. Failure to do so will compromise the process.) Leave submerged
for 15 minutes.

Step #4:
Remove system from tub, drain and towel dry what you can. Use a common blow
dryer to complete the drying process. It's important to dry the system out
reasonably well prior to proceeding to Step 5.

Step #5:
You're now ready to re-install XP! Vista should be completely cleaned out
at this point. Plug everything back in, open the cup holder on the front of
the computer and insert your original XP installation CD. Simply follow the
directions and you're good to go.

Hope that helps! Give us an update on your success.

-Larry

 

[Jane C]

ROFL ;o)

 

[jonah]

For those of you that installed Vista Beta over your XP, you're in luck! If
you follow these simple, step-by-step instructions, it is guaranteed to
uninstall Vista Beta.

Step #1:
Don't worry about backing up important data. It's only a bunch of files
that mean nothing because they're not on paper. Proceed to step 2.

Step #2:
Fill your bathtub with lukewarm water. Temperature is important, or the
transformation process won't work right. The water should be between 85 and
98.6 degrees. Use a common oral (or rectal) thermometer to check the water
temp before proceeding to Step 3.

Step #3:
Disconnect everything from your computer. Monitor, electrical...everything.
Take the side panel off your computer, and slowly immerse it in the tub of
water. (NOTE: Be sure the water level is high enough to cover the entire
computer. Failure to do so will compromise the process.) Leave submerged
for 15 minutes.

Step #4:
Remove system from tub, drain and towel dry what you can. Use a common blow
dryer to complete the drying process. It's important to dry the system out
reasonably well prior to proceeding to Step 5.

Step #5:
You're now ready to re-install XP! Vista should be completely cleaned out
at this point. Plug everything back in, open the cup holder on the front of
the computer and insert your original XP installation CD. Simply follow the
directions and you're good to go.

Hope that helps! Give us an update on your success.

-Larry

In my excitement and eagerness to uninstall Vista as fast as possible
I am afraid I did not read properly or fully understand your
instructions which having now read properly I consider to be somewhat
ambiguous.

I forgot to take the plug out and accidently electrocuted the wife.
Not entirely sure if her life insurance will cover having a live PC
chucked in the bath to clean it of Vista, anyway the police seemed a
bit sceptical for some reason but they let me go for now after I
showed them this post, also I am not to leave town for the time being.

Can I borrow your Lawyer?



Jonah

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I think I would apply #2 to the user.

 

[John]

Hey, that is a great way to clean your computer of malware if you add a
little soap too!

 

[Chad Harris]

I get all mixed up with all you experts up here especially with all these
new dazzling things from the luminaries and brain surgeons at MSFT who are
offering 4 grand a day to developers frantically trying to debug Clear,
Confident, Connected Vistabut I have some questions here--if MSFT is Clear,
Confident, and Connected why are they paying outside developers a tub full
of bucksto debug Vista?

1) If I go paperless, does that mean everything that meant something will
mean nothing--would that be hybridizing the writings of Kafke and Sartre?

2) What about the shitty OCR for example Omni Page who says every year their
OCR improves 35%--can 35% go into 100% about ten times, because to go
paperless I need some decent OCR and I sure as hell haven't seen any?

3) I don't understand the role of temp in the water. You mean that thing
they shoved at you in chem class with the 273 degrees in the numberator with
something about a K for Kelvin? Degrees Kelvin = Degrees Celsius + 273 and
all that stuff?

4) You want the computer in the bathtub after the water gets in there but
how do you tell if your computer is one of the ones that float? Isn't
Windows Genuine Advantage necessary for it to phone home to Redmond once a
day so it can float? What if the computer has som much Win Genuine
Advantage in it that it keeps trying to surface to call home to Redmond
Softies and won't stay under?

5) Didn't the same guy who got a sizable settlement from Sony for their root
kit planting sue MSFT in Federal District Court in the Easter

http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/WAWD/CASELIST.NSF/64816dac731e4808882564c00067c41d?SearchView
C06-0900 MJB Brian Johnson v. Microsoft Corporation


"The lead lawyer representing Johnson in the suit against Microsoft, Scott
Kamber of Kamber & Associates LLC in New York, was co-lead counsel for
consumers in the lawsuit over Sony Corp.'s surreptitious placement of
copy-protection "rootkit" software on PCs, through music CDs. That software,
designed to prevent music from being copied illegally, disabled protections
against viruses and spyware, potentially leaving unaware computer users
vulnerable. Sony settled the suit."

So will MSFT--sounds like an excellent candidate to move to get class action
status to get those tough guys into their Westlaw who are doing the menacing
"we'll getcha" blogs on IE--see "lawyers try doing amatuer blogging."

6) Can't you just use a wet vac to do the drying?


6) The most perplexing question is how does Larry tell a rectal from an oral
thermometer and is there in fact a difference for Larry? Should there be
and will it impact Vista or XP? How many Softies do you think can tell the
difference? I'd bet few.

7) Won't UAC make Vista waterproof and immune to any moves to clean it out?
Just the "wanna run as admin" boxes alone should confer immunity?


CH

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Chad, you sure make strangers easily.

I get all mixed up with all you experts up here especially with all these
new dazzling things from the luminaries and brain surgeons at MSFT who are
offering 4 grand a day to developers frantically trying to debug Clear,
Confident, Connected Vistabut I have some questions here--if MSFT is Clear,
Confident, and Connected why are they paying outside developers a tub full
of bucksto debug Vista?

1) If I go paperless, does that mean everything that meant something will
mean nothing--would that be hybridizing the writings of Kafke and Sartre?

2) What about the shitty OCR for example Omni Page who says every year
their OCR improves 35%--can 35% go into 100% about ten times, because to
go paperless I need some decent OCR and I sure as hell haven't seen any?

3) I don't understand the role of temp in the water. You mean that thing
they shoved at you in chem class with the 273 degrees in the numberator
with something about a K for Kelvin? Degrees Kelvin = Degrees Celsius +
273 and all that stuff?

4) You want the computer in the bathtub after the water gets in there but
how do you tell if your computer is one of the ones that float? Isn't
Windows Genuine Advantage necessary for it to phone home to Redmond once a
day so it can float? What if the computer has som much Win Genuine
Advantage in it that it keeps trying to surface to call home to Redmond
Softies and won't stay under?

5) Didn't the same guy who got a sizable settlement from Sony for their
root kit planting sue MSFT in Federal District Court in the Easter

http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/WAWD/CASELIST.NSF/64816dac731e4808882564c00067c41d?SearchView
C06-0900 MJB Brian Johnson v. Microsoft Corporation


"The lead lawyer representing Johnson in the suit against Microsoft, Scott
Kamber of Kamber & Associates LLC in New York, was co-lead counsel for
consumers in the lawsuit over Sony Corp.'s surreptitious placement of
copy-protection "rootkit" software on PCs, through music CDs. That
software, designed to prevent music from being copied illegally, disabled
protections against viruses and spyware, potentially leaving unaware
computer users vulnerable. Sony settled the suit."

So will MSFT--sounds like an excellent candidate to move to get class
action status to get those tough guys into their Westlaw who are doing the
menacing "we'll getcha" blogs on IE--see "lawyers try doing amatuer
blogging."

6) Can't you just use a wet vac to do the drying?


6) The most perplexing question is how does Larry tell a rectal from an
oral thermometer and is there in fact a difference for Larry? Should
there be and will it impact Vista or XP? How many Softies do you think can
tell the difference? I'd bet few.

7) Won't UAC make Vista waterproof and immune to any moves to clean it
out? Just the "wanna run as admin" boxes alone should confer immunity?


CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Hopefully whatever that big word means.

CH

Chad, you sure make strangers easily.

 

[Bob T.]

Just one question? My cupholder isn't big enough for my cup but everytime I
buy a cupholder pusherouter, they are always the same size and I can't get
my aeroglass in it to work. Can one of you geeky types build me a bigger
cup holder? TIA.

 

[Larry Hodges]

I get all mixed up with all you experts up here especially with all these
new dazzling things from the luminaries and brain surgeons at MSFT who are
offering 4 grand a day to developers frantically trying to debug Clear,
Confident, Connected Vistabut I have some questions here--if MSFT is Clear,
Confident, and Connected why are they paying outside developers a tub full
of bucksto debug Vista?

1) If I go paperless, does that mean everything that meant something will
mean nothing--would that be hybridizing the writings of Kafke and Sartre?

Never heard of them. Do they write western novels?

2) What about the shitty OCR for example Omni Page who says every year
their OCR improves 35%--can 35% go into 100% about ten times, because to
go paperless I need some decent OCR and I sure as hell haven't seen any?

Sentence structure here sucks. It should be "Omni Page who says every year
their OCR improves 35%--can 35% go into 100% about ten times? Because to go
paperless, I need some decent OCR and I sure as hell haven't seen any?"
That's still a little choppy, but better.

Please work on that if you intend future posts.

3) I don't understand the role of temp in the water. You mean that thing
they shoved at you in chem class with the 273 degrees in the numberator
with something about a K for Kelvin? Degrees Kelvin = Degrees Celsius +
273 and all that stuff?

Yes. And no. Depends.

4) You want the computer in the bathtub after the water gets in there but
how do you tell if your computer is one of the ones that float? Isn't
Windows Genuine Advantage necessary for it to phone home to Redmond once a
day so it can float? What if the computer has som much Win Genuine
Advantage in it that it keeps trying to surface to call home to Redmond
Softies and won't stay under?

5) Didn't the same guy who got a sizable settlement from Sony for their
root kit planting sue MSFT in Federal District Court in the Easter

http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/WAWD/CASELIST.NSF/64816dac731e4808882564c00067c41d?SearchView
C06-0900 MJB Brian Johnson v. Microsoft Corporation


"The lead lawyer representing Johnson in the suit against Microsoft, Scott
Kamber of Kamber & Associates LLC in New York, was co-lead counsel for
consumers in the lawsuit over Sony Corp.'s surreptitious placement of
copy-protection "rootkit" software on PCs, through music CDs. That
software, designed to prevent music from being copied illegally, disabled
protections against viruses and spyware, potentially leaving unaware
computer users vulnerable. Sony settled the suit."

So will MSFT--sounds like an excellent candidate to move to get class
action status to get those tough guys into their Westlaw who are doing the
menacing "we'll getcha" blogs on IE--see "lawyers try doing amatuer
blogging."

6) Can't you just use a wet vac to do the drying?

No. That could damage the valuable files that weren't important enough to
back up in the first place. After all, we're trying to do this the smart
way this time. Don't rock the boat.

6) The most perplexing question is how does Larry tell a rectal from an
oral thermometer and is there in fact a difference for Larry? Should
there be and will it impact Vista or XP? How many Softies do you think can
tell the difference? I'd bet few.

You can tell which one you're using by taste.

7) Won't UAC make Vista waterproof and immune to any moves to clean it
out? Just the "wanna run as admin" boxes alone should confer immunity?

Yes, that is currently under development, but not yet implemented in Beta2.

 

[Chad Harris]

LOL--

Sartre and Kafka write the Western novels that the Bush family reads while
they're at Graceland.

, I can't done see no improvement in sentence structure in the one you has
proferred.

How about "Nuance/Scansoft" has alleged a 35% improvement in OCR for the
last ten years, and it don't ever get no more better every year? I think
that conveys the idea admirably.

I vow to go paperless every time I lose the next important piece of paper,
but people who know OCR much better than I do say it is just "not all that"
and still needs a lot of work. What's the point of scanning if you have to
spend considerable time cleaning up the jibberish that scans. The change
from Scansoft to Nuance hasn't seemed to make any impact.

I couldn't remember the equation I meant but I sure as hell had to put it on
my exams. Sorry I spelled numerator wrong.

" You can tell which one you're using by taste." I don't see how this is
valid.

Also as to the wet vac you can also put a keyboard in the dishwasher and
then dry it at 150 degrees. The Thompsons advocate this in their excellent
O'Reilly hdw books.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

I think you can make progress towards Aero Glass, Aurora, with some of these
designs:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A6Z94Q.01-A3DWJ95CJL3OHA._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.cleanfunny.com/i/s/cdrom_tray.jpg

CH

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If the aeroglass is that thing that turns over and over while I am waiting
and waiting, then I think you can make it bigger with one of those
rightclicksliderthingies.

 

[Larry Hodges]

LOL--

Sartre and Kafka write the Western novels that the Bush family reads while
they're at Graceland.

, I can't done see no improvement in sentence structure in the one you has
proferred.

Yeah. I could've done better...

How about "Nuance/Scansoft" has alleged a 35% improvement in OCR for the
last ten years, and it don't ever get no more better every year? I think
that conveys the idea admirably.

I vow to go paperless every time I lose the next important piece of paper,
but people who know OCR much better than I do say it is just "not all
that" and still needs a lot of work. What's the point of scanning if you
have to spend considerable time cleaning up the jibberish that scans.
The change from Scansoft to Nuance hasn't seemed to make any impact.

When they come out with a non-proprietary format, and good OCR, I'll jump on
board.

I couldn't remember the equation I meant but I sure as hell had to put it
on my exams. Sorry I spelled numerator wrong.

" You can tell which one you're using by taste." I don't see how this is
valid.

It is valid when it tastes like shit. You know then that you chose wrongly
grasshoppa.

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